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STATE OF NEW JERSEY
PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS COMMISSION
RESUME OF PANEL ARBITRATOR
John
B.
Wolf
Monroe Cty, NJ
Arbitrator, Mediator and Fact-Finder; Adjunct Professor
GRIEVANCE ARBITRATION EXPERIENCE:
In addition to serving as a grievance arbitrator and mediator/fact-finder for the NJ Public Employment Relations Commission, I also serve on the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations/CWA panel for disciplinary mediations and arbitrations (2015-current).
I also serve on the New Jersey Judiciary and CWA Local 1036 contractual grievances and major disciplinary appeals panel.
Extensive experience as an advisor and advocate on wide range of issues in K-12 and higher education, including discipline, discharge, contract interpretation, salary administration, health benefits, sick and other leaves, appointment and promotion, tenure, increment withholding, seniority, workload, health and safety, academic freedom, union security, discrimination, retaliation, subcontracting.
Counseled, settled and litigated hundreds of labor disputes as labor counsel for Rutgers University (1984-2013) and school districts (1980-1984). Experience with many bargaining units, including teachers, university faculty, adjunct faculty, clerical and technical employees, service and maintenance employees, administrative staff, police and public safety employees, teaching and graduate assistants, post-doctoral researchers, student health service physicians, operating engineers and student counselors.
While Executive Director of Labor Relations for Rutgers University (1997-2003), served as Hearing Officer in faculty grievances that arose out of promotion and tenure process.
MEDIATION AND FACT-FINDING EXPERIENCE:
I serve on the NJ Public Employment Relations Commission's Fact-Finding panel.
In addition I have extensive mediation and fact-finding experience while serving as labor counsel for Rutgers University. I represented Rutgers in complex fact-finding proceedings covering a bargaining unit of 2500 university faculty and 2000 teaching and graduate assistants.
I received a training certificate from Cornell ILR for Mutual Gains/Interest-Based Bargaining and successfully used mutual gains negotiations with Rutgers faculty union to reach timely contract settlement, for which the union awarded me its Distinguished Service Award.
INTEREST ARBITRATION EXPERIENCE:
Experience as advisor and advocate with interest arbitration proceedings involving Rutgers police before interest arbitrators, NJ PERC and courts
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EDUCATION:
Doctor of Law - Emory University - 1978
AB - Vassar College - 1974
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA), NJ Chapter; American Bar Association and New Jersey State Bar Association (Dispute Resolution and Employment and Labor Sections)
OTHER RELEVANT OR EQUIVALENT EXPERIENCE:
Professional Experience: Negotiated, drafted and administered numerous collective bargaining agreements while labor counsel for Rutgers University (1984-2013). Also negotiated and successfully implemented neutrality agreements for union elections and card check procedures.
Teaching and related experience: Served as Adjunct Assistant Professor at Baruch College of the City University of New York (2014-2022) teaching Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Law of Higher Education courses in the School of Public Affairs Master of Science Program in Education and Higher Education Administration.
I have taught numerous classes at Rutgers University in labor law, collective bargaining and higher education law in the School of Management and Labor Relations, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers Law School and School of Arts and Sciences.
Adjunct faculty, Middlesex County College Paralegal Studies Program (1992-2011) - taught Legal Writing, Legal Research, Advanced Legal Research, Litigation and Torts.
University of Pennsylvania Law School, Moot Court Judge (2012)
New Jersey State Bar Foundation mock trial competition judge
American Bar Association - Law School Site Evaluation Team Member for ABA Accreditation
Contributing Editor to supplements to Schlei and Grossman's treatise,
Employment Discrimination Law,
2nd edition
Frequent speaker on collective bargaining, labor law and related subjects. Topics have included "Labor Law Primer," "Card Check Alternatives to Elections, Neutrality Agreements and their Impact on Organizing and Negotiations," "Dealing with Faculty Unions on a Daily Basis," "Organization and Bargaining with Adjunct, Part-Time and Non-Tenured Faculty," "Unique Collective Bargaining Issues: Faculty Union Issues," "
Yeshiva
Revisited: State Labor Law issues: Faculty Prerogatives and Collective Bargaining," "Academic Freedom: Teaching, Learning and Politicking in the Academy
Public Service:
Vassar College Board of Trustees (1997-2001)
South Brunswick Board of Education (1987-1998)
South Brunswick Zoning Board (2006-2010)
I currently sit on two boards of 501 (c) (3) public charities
PER DIEM FEES:
GRIEVANCE ARBITRATION $
1,500 + expenses
INTEREST ARBITRATION $
CANCELLATION NOTICE AND FEE (if any):
$1,000 per diem fee for any hearing that is cancelled or postponed with less than ten (10) calendar days' notice.